Thinking with Technology
Module 3 - Curriculum-Framing Questions to Support Thinking Skills
   
  Activity 3.4

Supporting Higher-Order Thinking Skills with Curriculum-Framing Questions

Step 1: Looking Deeper into a Project

After you generate questions, it is important to use them effectively throughout a project during discussions, reflections, guiding research, refocusing learner work, and so on. Below are the Curriculum-Framing Questions from the Grow a Business project plan. With a partner, review and discuss these questions and the project's procedural section.

Click here to open the Grow a Business Project Plan

 

Curriculum-Framing Questions for Grow a Business Unit Plan

Critical QuestionWhy take the risk?
Focus Questions

How do we grow a business?

How do you convince others?

Content QuestionsWhat is the difference between a producer and a consumer? In what ways can surveys help us to make decisions? What is marketing? What is profit?

 

To see the fully hyperlinked project :

  1. Open your Internet browser and select Visual Ranking from your Favorites menu. (www.intel.com/education/visualranking
  2. Click Enter. A new window will open to Visual Ranking. 
  3. Click Project Examples, and then click Unit Plans
  4. Click Grow a Business

 

  1. How are Curriculum-Framing Questions used in this project? How do the Curriculum-Framing Questions help to focus the project? 

  2. How do the Curriculum-Framing Questions help to target higher-order thinking skills?

 

 

Next: Proceed to Step 2 of Activity 3.4


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